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yeah no kidding, that perked my ears when I read that (for as little sense as that makes).

agreed, that's why I dumped my 3G for a winphone, and never looked back, because when a WP update happens, the phone gets FASTER, not the opposite like my experience with bloated iOS.

making a theme is designing and producing a product, which you can then sell to as many people as possible for $15, nothing wrong with that.

not hearsay at all, that's why this would only work in places like malaysia.

Screw zoom, shoot on Primes! It'll look nicer :)

?? WP and windows are separate OSs that adopt a similiar user interface. Using both a Windows phone and the consumer build of windows 8, they function very similarly but windows 8 is clearly for a laptop/pc/tablet, while the phone is for phone hardware. Integration of accounts is simliar too, there's no intention from…

same, I just really hate using android and ios by comparison, yes wp7 is behind in apps but the big name ones are there and the phone itself is so much better at being a phone/communications device than the alternatives.

this would be great, if only to stave off the enormous hand cramp I get playing Mass Effect Infiltrator.

no mars, doesn't really need it, the production design looks incredible though, and I can kinda recognize the gardner expressway for fellow torontonians.

you clearly haven't used it.

"As for computer, your computer becomes two computers, a much faster windows 7, and a media outlet with metro. "

it doesn't force any kind of integration, you can simply have a "local" user profile that's not hooked up to a live account, or you can put multiple live accounts on the machine, or you can use live accounts for certain apps when using the local user profile.

I've been using the consumer preview and its fantastic. Metro interface aside, it's got so much going for it. All the integration from your various accounts hooked up to your windows live/hotmail account. Auto skydrive integration, auto facebook integration, flickr, xbox, etc.

really? their stock has popped 30% since december, win8 is pretty broadly being hailed as fantastic, WP7 is well reviewed, and everyone's looking forward to the next xbox.

Just give it a few months, angry birds space with xbox live integration and achievements.

they fixed this studios-not-making-money-on-used-games issue by simply implementing those online passes that ship with games, where you need to buy a new one if it's already been used.

I mean, I get it, I get the ending (for the most part) and the themes. It's a touch preachy, if organics and synthetics can't live in peace then they're doomed to repeat a cycle of destruction, so on and so forth..

To be honest, this guy sounds a lot like steve jobs, if steve jobs knew how to program.

well, I think they tried that, and we wound up with Vista. I feel for the engineers that feel they got pushed out, I do.. but having worked with many different iterations of development houses and departments over my career sometimes someone grabbing the reigns and not letting people take their lovely time (which is…